The coronation of Raja Sports with the African Confederation Cup title, the futsal team’s victory in the Arab championship in Egypt and its reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup were the most prominent achievements of Moroccan football, with an improvement in the results of the first team, which qualified easily for the third round of World Cup qualifiers and reached the finals of the African Nations Cup in Cameroon.
Raja received special congratulations from King Mohammed VI after winning the African Confederation Cup title at the expense of Algeria's JS Kabylie last July at Al-Sadaqa Stadium in Cotonou, Benin, after winning 2-1 thanks to goals by Sofiane Rahimi and Ben Malungu.
In the continental crowning campaign, Raja beat the Egyptian Pyramids team on penalties, 5-4, after the two matches ended in a goalless draw, and in the quarter-finals, the Moroccan team defeated the South African Orlando Pirates 5-1 after a 1-1 draw, and then won the second leg with a clean four.
And the brilliance of Raja continued by winning last August the title of the Mohammed VI Cup for Arab Champions Clubs, after winning the final match against the Saudi Al Ittihad club on penalties 4-3.
Al-Ahly deprives Raja of a historical trilogy
Raja was close to achieving a historic triple when it advanced for 90 minutes in the African Super match - yesterday, in the Qatari capital, Doha, but Al-Ahly of Egypt, the most crowned in the title, tied 1-1, then won the title after winning the penalty shootout 6-5.
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The Moroccan futsal team made the event after winning the Arab Championship, which Egypt hosted last May, when it defeated the Egyptian national team, the owner of the land and the public, by a clean four;
Ashraf Saud scored a double, along with two goals, signed by Youssef Jawad and Sofiane Bourita.
On the way to the final match, the Moroccan national futsal team defeated Bahrain by a clean six.
The futsal team reached for the first time in its history the quarter-finals of the World Cup, which was held last September in Lithuania, where it narrowly lost 0-1 to Brazil, the five-times world champion, and before that, it overtook Venezuela in the round of 16, 3-2, and in the group stage, it won over Solomon Islands 6-0, a 1-1 draw against Thailand, and 3-3 against Portugal, which later won the title for the first time in its history.
And the year 2021 began with the crowning of the Moroccan team in the African Championship for Local Players organized in Cameroon, after its victory in the final in Yaounde over Mali 2-0, and before that, Morocco beat Cameroon in the semi-finals 4-0 and defeated Zambia 3-0 in the quarter-finals. .
This is the second successive continental crown for the local team, which failed in the Arab world, despite the ideal start in the group stage of the Arab Cup in Qatar, by achieving 3 victories over the teams of Palestine, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. 2-2 against Algeria, which later won the title for the first time in its history.
Morocco national football team
The first Moroccan team did not find the slightest difficulty in qualifying as the leader of its group in the World Cup qualifiers, achieving 6 victories in 6 matches. It also qualified for the African Nations Cup finals, which will be organized soon in Cameroon.
At the local level, Wydad regained the title of the first professional league in the country, and the Royal Army and Maghreb Tetouan reached the Throne Cup final.